Introduction. From Arab socialism to neoliberalism : the politics of immiseration -- Arab socialism in retrospect -- The devastation of peace in Egypt -- The infeasibility of revolution in Syria -- Iraq--then and now -- The perverse transformation -- Permanent war in the Arab world

"Phenomenal waste has surfaced as the social form and substance of value. In capital's totalizing process, which commodifies all that comes in its way, wasting classes consume the wasted classes. This book addresses the metamorphosis of value into waste and it focuses on wars as industries of...